Evangeline Lilly Quotes

If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity - it would be style... being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental capacity or my physical willingness based on the way I look.

My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished.

I just don't think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.

Money is the longest route to happiness.

A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.

People initially think I'm a snob because I'm intensely private.

Outside of acting, the person that I admire the most is my mother.

I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.

I think I'm not always what I seem.

I have these huge, pointed ears. They're like three times the size of Orlando Bloom's ears. And I think he has ear envy, I love my ears.

You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.

My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles.

The world is full of opportunities, and I want to try as many as I possibly can.

I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

I've had to find my sanity.

The way I've been able to embrace fame is by realizing that celebrity is just a means to send whatever message you want out into the world.

I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.

There's a massive part of me that can be bold and courageous...very strong and very assertive and independent, almost to a fault sometimes.

To impress me, a guy has to be completely unaffected by my presence. If he wants to talk to me, talk to me; if he doesn't, don't.

I can still go grocery shopping and not get mobbed. But when I was in South Africa this summer, I had people asking for autographs, and that scared me.

I think men don't know what they want, so the idea of not knowing what they're getting makes it a little easier on them.

I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether she be a heroine or not, can often be the wart on the man.

I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.

I like to be around people who make me laugh. It's one of my favorite things on a set. I hate it when people take themselves serious in a film set.

I have to have nature around me. I love the earth and this insanely beautiful creation that we live in. I just think it's to be marveled at and appreciated. It gives us life.

I adore having people over to my home. My number one reason I love that is because I love to see people at ease with each other.

I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre.

I bought almost every single thing that I furnished my house with at the Salvation Army in Hawaii. All second hand. Some of them are kind of retro, and some of them you'd never know.

I just wanted friends. I just wanted people to like me. I just wanted for things to be simple and good. So, for five years I actively sought out mediocrity.

I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!

I eventually want to come back to Canada, to disappear, have nobody know me, and just be a writer and do what I want to do.

I had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic.

When I got the job on 'Lost, ' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.

Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.

I'm from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island like Hawaii. I was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the South Island.

It would be amazing to play Sylvia Plath. She was so dark, and what came out of her writing was troubled and fierce. The dimensions, levels, layers and levels would be incredible to take on.

My son is wonderful. He is amazing.

Wonder Woman was my favorite superhero as a little girl. I still have a huge girl crush on Wonder Woman I think she's amazing.

If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?

I just like short hair on women I think it's cool.